Popular policies might win you the next election but send the country further down the road, cashing in all of our chips , what's left of them . Sadly the lesson from Corbyn is that if you give them what they want they'll vote for you . That won't have been missed by any western politician over this next stanza .
The problem we have here is that wages are too high to sustain most business models but the cost of living is escalating at a rate to outstrip wages growth so we have unhappy workers and unhappy bosses,many of whom are sending their businesses offshore. Structurally the system is broken but ironically the person who wins the next election will promise to break it even further.
It's been self evident ever since he was elected to parliament that Turnbull is a total dud but it wouldn't matter who they had in charge , the demographic now means that it's nigh on impossible for a true Liberal Government to win office on its own terms . The youth vote is as its always been except they're more organised and more savvy in utilising modern technologies, there are more unemployed/welfare recipients and working classes who are always dissatisfied with their lot , the middle/upper class are half latte socialists happy enough with their lot to be magnanimous whilst their properties increase in value, and the big change is that the super wealthy elites now contain an equal proportion of stealth globalists whose interests lie in bigger populations of people at lower economic levels.
So it's inevitable that even if the Libs turn more to the left Labor can always go that little bit further and grab that swinging section who see their standard of living ebbing away . Plus ,unlike most other western democracies,you have to pay for everything in this country these days,so many echelons of Government all with their fingers in the pie charging and fining anyone they can think of for anything they can think of. This is just about the most costly place you can live .
People can talk politics till they're blue in the face but I wouldn't want to be confronted with the current issues and try to tell the voters the facts of life . Unless something highly unusual happens Turnbull will get turfed out,Shorten will come in and within 3 or 4 years we'll be confronted with a whole raft of bigger issues once he starts picking at the scabs that are currently festering and he''ll be worse than Rudd/Gillard. It's only then that you might see a changing of the political guard but for the time being it is what it is
Not much point debating the issues when no one wants to face up to the realities.
